Blue & White Chinoiserie Gift Wrap

Blue and White Chinoiserie Gift Wrap

Do you love beautifully wrapped Christmas gifts? What would be prettier than gifts wrapped in blue and white chinoiserie under the tree?

It's a Wrap

Mark Sikes

Beautifully wrapped Christmas gifts in red, white and blue checks and polka dots. I ordered some wonderful gift wrap from Caspari and started wrapping Christmas gifts myself. I even watched a couple of You Tube videos on wrapping perfect gifts and learned a lot. One of the tips I tried is using double sided tape so no tape is visible. Another is creasing all of your edges so everything looks very crisp and finished. 

I also love the coral in the fireplace. So beautiful. 

People were asking about shadows from my new palm chandelier at night. Here it is. 

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Wrapping Gifts with Chinoiserie Style

One Kings Lane

Wrap Christmas gifts in Chinoiserie gift wrap and tie with gold ribbon to add Chinoiserie style.

Christmas Gift Wrap 2014

Caspari Scalamandre Zebras

Each year I search for a special gift wrap to use on my Christmas gifts. This year it is this wonderful Caspari paper with the iconic Scalamandre Zebras pattern. I am buying ribbon in black, white, stripes, and even Greek key. The red foil wrapping paper comes in very convenient 8 foot rolls.

Darn!

Did any of you grab this de Gournay gift wrap on One Kings Lane yesterday?

By the time I returned home from running errands a couple of hours later, it was all sold out. Very annoying that they don't make sufficient quantities of these mass produced items.

I would have really liked using this gift wrap for my Christmas gifts this year. I suspect some folks might frame these too!

Amazing Framed Chinoiserie Panels for Peanuts

Caspari Monkey Business

I love framing gorgeous wrapping paper for easy and budget friendly DIY art. My daughter Kate and I framed three gorgeous Chinoiserie wrapping papers from Paper Source for her apartment.

But this new wrapping paper from Caspari by my friend Harrison Howard is not to be missed.

Step One - Pop over to Caspari and buy this Harrison Howard "Monkey Business" wrapping paper for $6.50 for two sheets each measuring 40" by 28."

Step Two - Find a pair of frames at Ikea, Michael's, a thrift store, or wherever you like and frame. This Ikea Ribba measures 27 1/2 by 39 1/4 without the mat. Almost perfect and it comes in lots of finishes. It's $24.99.

Step Three - Admire your pair of framed Chinoiserie panels for about $60.00.

Ikea Ribba

Here are a couple more Caspari Chinoiserie wrapping papers that would also be amazing framed. These both come in 5' rolls and would lend themselves to a large framed panel. If you would like to use these papers for wrapping gifts, that's fine too.

Coral Chinoiserie Toile

Lavender Chinoiserie Toile

2013 Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Gift Wrap

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you are all ready to turn your attention to Christmas. I am at Day Five of my series on decorating your home for the holidays with Chinoiserie Chic style.

If you missed any posts so far or would like to review, here they are -

Holiday Decorating at Chinoiserie Chic
The Easy Peasy Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Tree
Get Your Bar Cart in the Holiday Spirit(s)

Tartan and Chinoiserie

I love beautifully wrapped gifts. Every year I search for great gift wrap for all my Christmas gift giving. This year's is really amazing. I am a HUGE fan of Caspari. I think their design store in Charlottesville is my favorite store anywhere. If I had a store, that is what it would be like.

Their new Wild Christmas line this year is too good. So Chinoiserie Chic with its elephants, zebras, and leopards! Wild Christmas comes in gift wrap, tissue, gift bags, wine bags, gift tags, and gift enclosures.

Great tip - for my husband, who is not, shall I say, skilled at wrapping gifts, I buy the matching gift bags and tissue so he can easily wrap his gifts to us.

It is also available in plates, napkins, invitations, guest towels, place cards, even Christmas crackers if you really want to go wild. See it all here.

I am pairing their Wild Christmas gift wrap with black and white ribbon and trim in stripes, polka dots, and Greek key.

The Pink Pagoda is having her third Blue and White Bash Linking Party this Monday, December 2ND. Blue and white posts with a holiday theme are encouraged. I am putting together a special post on a Blue and White Chinoiserie Christmas. Jennifer (The Pink Pagoda) will be sharing how she incorporates blue and white in her own holiday decor in her home. Hope to see you there. Have you seen The Pink Pagoda's new logo? Isn't it stunning?

A Chinoiserie Christmas - Let the Wrapping Begin

Today I will get my Christmas gifts wrapped using the pink zebra wrapping paper I posted about and Greek key trim and ribbons.

A Chinoiserie Christmas - My Gift Wrap

I ordered a zillion rolls of this fantastic zebra gift wrap here and will be using black and white Greek key trim for ribbon to wrap all my Christmas gifts this year. I love this paper. It is even printed with soy inks using 100% wind power. It would be fantastic framed in a nursery or child's room or even used as wallpaper in a powder room. This paper reminds me so much of Scalamandre Zebras without the $$$$. I even did a post a while ago asking Scalamandre to come out with its iconic Zebras in some fun colors like this.

Pagoda Bamboo Paper

This beautiful bamboo paper with pagodas is available at Smock. Gorgeous for gift wrapping, or perhaps framing, lining drawers, or another clever use.

Chinoiserie Gift Wrap

Wrapping your gifts in Chinoiserie style is a piece of cake with these wonderful Chinoiserie papers from Caspari. The toile ones are even reversible as shown. The line also includes coordinating gift bags, tissue paper, gift tags, and ribbon. I have just ordered and received several rolls and thought I might try framing some in frames from Ikea or Michael's for some beautiful budget versions of framed Chinoiserie panels.

Chinoiserie Gift Wrap

Let me be the first to say that while I love gifts that have been beautifully wrapped by the gift giver, my heart does race at a gift wrapped in Tiffany blue, Hermes orange, or Thomas Pink pink. But when it comes to gorgeous papers to wrap gifts myself, my personal favorite is the collection of handmade Japanese papers at the Paper Source. Check them all out here. A great hint-these are wonderful framed. The photo below shows three I did in $4.00 frames from Michael's for my daughter's apartment. This was one of my five budget decorating tips featured on Domino's website.